Eddington

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley 1882-1944. British mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who was an early exponent of the theory of relativity and conducted research on the evolution, structure, and motion of stars.

This so-called Eddington limit, named after the 20th century astronomer who realized that radiation could in extreme instances balance gravity, would occur (at least for this specific example of starbursts; it can also happen in other situations) only in cases much more dramatic than anything known in our own galaxy.

The comment of Sir Arthur Eddington, one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists, is typical: "If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation" - a summing-up so useful that it probably deserves to be called Eddington's Law.

In the present age the Church calls science to its aid, and utterly disregards its obsolete theology which it still practices, and attempts, by means of the misinterpretation of scientific facts and statements of a few men such as Eddington and Jeans, to force science into some illogical and unscientific concordance with the conception of a supreme being.